Women Film Critcs Circle Nominations

  Uninspiring categories with some uninspiring choices.

 

Best Actor

·          Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

·          James Gandolfini (Enough Said)

·          Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Don Jon)

·          Michael B. Jordan (Fruitvale Station)

 

Best Actress

·          Judi Dench (Philomena)

·          Danai Gurira (Mother of George)

·          Jennifer Hudson (Winnie Mandela)

·          Barbara Sukowa (Hannah Arendt)

 

Best Family Film

      The Wind Rises

 

Best Movie about Women

·          Mother of George

·          Philomena

·          The Sapphires

·          Winnie Mandela

 

Best Foreign Film by or about Women

·          Augustine

·          Hannah Arendt

·          Inch Allah

·          Wadjda

 

Best Theatrically Unreleased Movie by or about Women

·          Fabulous Fashionistas

·          Helen Mirren (Phil Spector)

·          Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer

·          Raltat

 

Best Young Actress

·          Dianna Agron (The Family)

·          Onata Aprile (What Maisie Knew)

·          Elle Fanning (Ginger & Rosa)

·          Waad Mohammed (Wadjda)

 

Best Comedic Actress

·          Lake Bell (In a World…)

·          Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha)

·          Scarlett Johansson (Don Jon)

·          Melissa McCarthy (The Heat)

 

Best Movie by a Woman

·          Enough Said

·          Girls in the Band

·          Hannah Arendt

·          Inch Allah

 

Best Woman Storyteller (Screenwriting Award)

·          Julie Delpy (Before Midnight)

·          Nicole Holofcener (Enough Said)

·          Darci Picoult (Mother of George)

·          Alice Winocour (Augustine)

 

Best Equality of the Sexes

·          Before Midnight

·          Enough Said

·          The Hot Flashes

·          Wadjda

 

Best Female Images in a Movie

·          Girls in the Band

·          Just Like a Woman

·          Philomena

·          Sunlight Jr.

 

Best Male Images in a Movie

·          Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave)

·          Idris Elba (Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom)

·          James Gandolfini (Enough Said)

·          Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Don Jon)

 

Women’s Work / Best Ensemble

·          Ginger & Rosa

·          The Hot Flashes

·          Just Like a Woman

·          The Sapphires

·          Winnie Mandela

 

Best Animated Female

      Kristen Bell – ‘Anna’ (Frozen)

 

Worst Female Images in a Movie

·          The Bling Ring

·          Machete Kills

·          Sharon Stone (Lovelace)

·          Oprah Winfrey (Lee Daniels’ The Butler)

 

Worst Male Images in a Movie

·          The Fifth Estate

·          Oldboy

·          Only God Forgives

·          Out of the Furnace

 

Special Mention Awards

 

Best Song

      Jennifer Hudson – ‘Would You Bleed for Love’ (Winnie Mandela)

 

Best Documentary by or about Women

·          Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners

·          Girls in the Band

·          Stories We Tell

·          Sweet Dreams

 

Best Screen Couple

      Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke (Before Midnight)

 

Courage in Filmmaking

      Laura Poitras

 

Courage in Acting

      Soko (Augustine)

 

The Invisible Woman Award

      Sandra Bullock (Gravity)

 

Adrienne Shelley Award

·          Augustine

·          Lovelace

·          Wadjda

 

Josephine Baker Award

·          12 Years a Slave

·          Go for Sisters

 

Karen Morley Award

·          Augustine

·          Wadjda

·          Winnie Mandela

 

Hall of Shame Award

      Blue Is the Warmest Colour

      The Canyons

 

Mommie Dearest Worst Screen Mom of the Year

      Kristin Scott Thomas (Only God Forgives)